Chapter Summaries

Feng Ye destroyed Holy Land Mary Geoise and let the surviving Five Elders and government officials escape, leaving Imu to warn them not to provoke him. News of the destruction stunned the world, while Whitebeard believed Feng Ye had survived and would soon appear again.

• Feng Ye allowed the Five Elders and CP0 officials to escape through a spatial corridor, then vanished after telling them to run with their fear.
• The wounded Five Elders and CP0 officials arrived at a hidden island, where Imu warned them not to provoke Feng Ye.
• News spread that Holy Land Mary Geoise had been razed and countless Celestial Dragons had died, causing the world to erupt in shock and uproar.
• Whitebeard read the report aboard the Moby Dick and remarked on Feng Ye's extraordinary feat.
• Marco wondered whether Feng Ye had survived, but Whitebeard said he sensed Feng Ye was still alive and that they would see him soon.

After Feng Ye destroyed Holy Land Mary Geoise, Golden Lion Shiki abandoned his long-term plan and prepared to return to the seas as conflicts and recruitment intensified around the world. As Robin questioned whether Feng Ye was a god, he told her that despite his power, he was truly an ordinary human.

• A subordinate told Golden Lion Shiki that Holy Land Mary Geoise had been destroyed, and Shiki learned Feng Ye was responsible.
• Shiki decided that his revenge plan and research into mutated creatures no longer mattered, canceled his original plan, and chose to return to the sea.
• The destruction of Holy Land Mary Geoise made conflicts across the seas bloodier and drew powerful Gouketu to join the Marines.
• Robin looked down at the ruined Holy Land from Feng Ye's ship and asked whether he was a god.
• Feng Ye told Robin that although she could define him by his power as a god, he was truly an ordinary human.

Hancock and her sisters escaped from the ruins of Mary Geoise but were discovered by Chaton, who learned that the Traveler had destroyed the Holy Land. The Traveler appeared behind Chaton as he reacted to the news.

• Hancock and her sisters rowed away from the Red Line Continent, then hid in the sea when they spotted a Marine warship approaching.
• A lookout spotted their small boat, and Chaton ordered the warship to continue toward Holy Land Mary Geoise despite the Marines’ lost contact with the government.
• Chaton sensed someone in the water, used Geppo to reach the boat, and pulled Hancock and her sisters aboard.
• Hancock told Chaton that they had escaped from Mary Geoise, and he realized they were runaway slaves.
• Hancock told Chaton that the Traveler had destroyed Mary Geoise, and he recognized the Traveler as Feng Ye when he appeared behind him.

After destroying Mary Geoise, Feng Ye told Chaton he intended to travel, then took Hancock and her sisters aboard his ship. Robin welcomed them and explained the ship’s rules, leaving the three girls to settle into their new surroundings.

• Chaton asked Feng Ye about the consequences of destroying Mary Geoise, and Feng Ye said he wanted to travel and witness different futures.
• Chaton ordered the Marines to put away their cannons and continue sailing toward the Holy Land.
• Feng Ye saw that Hancock would not survive at sea without a Log Pose and offered her and her sisters a ride on his ship.
• Hancock and her sisters followed Feng Ye aboard, where Robin took them to wash and change into clean clothes.
• Robin told Hancock and her sisters that many things aboard the ship were alive, loud noises were forbidden, and they needed to keep things clean.

Feng Ye took Hancock and her sisters aboard his ship, where Robin helped them settle in. He asked Hancock to identify Amazon Lily’s approximate location so he could take them home, leaving her startled that he already knew where she came from.

• Robin showed Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marygold around the ship and explained how to avoid disturbing Feng Ye.
• Feng Ye came out of his bedroom and reassured the sisters that they did not need to be nervous around him.
• Robin wondered whether Feng Ye had rescued Hancock because he was attracted to young girls, but Feng Ye said he had seen their admirable future.
• Feng Ye called Hancock over, opened a map, and asked her to point out the approximate location of Amazon Lily.
• Hancock realized Feng Ye already knew her name and homeland, and asked how he knew where she came from.

Feng Ye sailed into the Calm Belt with Robin and Hancock to search for Amazon Lily, while the two girls competed to attend to him aboard the ship. They continued toward Hancock’s home as Feng Ye scanned the sea for the island.

• Hancock showed Feng Ye the broad area where she believed Amazon Lily was located, and he agreed to search the Calm Belt for it.
• Robin prompted Hancock to thank Feng Ye for offering to take her home, then invited her to help prepare a meal.
• Several days later, Feng Ye’s ship entered the Calm Belt, where Robin and Feng Ye admired the stark boundary between its calm waters and the stormy Grand Line.
• Feng Ye photographed Robin and Hancock beside the boundary, and Hancock went to make him tea.
• Hancock returned with tea and found Robin massaging Feng Ye’s back on deck, then Robin told her to set the tea aside.

Feng Ye spotted a ship belonging to the Kuja Pirates while sailing through the Calm Belt with Robin and Hancock. The Kuja crew, still grieving Hancock and her sisters’ disappearance, noticed Feng Ye’s ship approaching.

• Feng Ye used his Reincarnated Tenseigan to locate the Kuja Pirates’ ship and told Robin and Hancock they no longer needed to search for Amazon Lily.
• The Kuja Pirates sailed through the Calm Belt, their ship pulled by two venomous Yuda.
• A Kuja warrior blamed herself for Hancock and her sisters being captured, while the crew tried to reassure her.
• The Kuja women discussed their raids and a captured man worth thirty million Beli, praising their Empress’s strength.
• A lookout spotted a ship approaching the Kuja Pirates from two o’clock.

Gloriosa and the Kuja Pirates found Feng Ye’s ship in the Calm Belt and reunited with Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marygold. After learning Feng Ye had rescued the sisters, Gloriosa took them aboard, while Hancock parted from Feng Ye with the promise that they would meet again.

• A lookout spotted an intact ship in the Calm Belt and reported seeing Hancock and her sisters aboard.
• Gloriosa ordered the Kuja Pirates to approach Feng Ye’s ship, fearing the sisters were in danger.
• Hancock explained that Feng Ye had rescued her, Sandersonia, and Marygold, and Gloriosa thanked him.
• Gloriosa took the three sisters aboard but refused to escort Feng Ye out of the Calm Belt.
• Hancock asked whether she would see Feng Ye again, and he promised they would meet again and hoped she would become Amazon Lily’s next Empress.

Hancock resolved to become Amazon Lily's Empress, while the Empress and other Kuja warriors warned her not to trust Feng Ye. Their warnings collapsed when Feng Ye effortlessly killed a giant Sea King, leaving the Kuja Pirates shocked as he and Robin prepared to eat it.

• The Empress of Amazon Lily explained that Hancock would have to become the strongest warrior to succeed her, and Hancock vowed to claim the title.
• The Empress and the Kuja warriors warned Hancock that men were only tools and prey, and that Feng Ye had put her in danger by entering the Calm Belt.
• A nearly thousand-meter Sea King surfaced and attacked Feng Ye's ship as the Kuja Pirates watched from afar.
• Feng Ye destroyed the Sea King's head with one punch, then cut off and froze a portion of its meat for himself and Robin.

After Feng Ye effortlessly killed a Sea King, the Empress of Amazon Lily learned from a newspaper that he had destroyed Mary Geoise and was being called the Man Closest to God. The World Government stayed silent and did not raise his bounty, leaving the world to conclude that it had backed down before Feng Ye.

• Feng Ye killed a gigantic Sea King with a single strike, shocking the Empress of Amazon Lily and winning Hancock's and Marygold's admiration.
• A News Coo delivered a newspaper reporting that Feng Ye had leveled Mary Geoise and likely destroyed Marineford with a meteorite.
• The Empress of Amazon Lily read the report and watched Feng Ye's ship disappear into the distance.
• Feng Ye received the newspaper aboard his ship and dismissed its added title, while Robin wondered how much his bounty would rise.
• The World Government neither confirmed nor denied the report, released no further information about Feng Ye, and left his bounty unchanged.
• The people of the seas began calling Feng Ye the Man Closest to God.

Feng Ye and Robin encountered poisonous cherry blossoms while sailing through the New World, and Feng Ye cured Robin after she was poisoned. Meanwhile, Captain John headed toward Poisonous Cherry Blossom Island to meet Whitebeard and ordered his crew to pursue Feng Ye's ship.

• Feng Ye discovered that the falling cherry blossoms were poisonous and cured Robin after the petals caused her skin to burn.
• Feng Ye swept the remaining cherry blossoms off the ship and reassured Robin that she did not need to be overly cautious while he was there.
• Feng Ye spotted a pirate ship in the distance and identified it to Robin.
• Captain John, a former member of the Rocks Pirates, learned that an unflagged ship was in his crew's path and ordered them to catch it before meeting Whitebeard.

Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates watched the John Pirates pursue Feng Ye’s ship toward Poisonous Cherry Blossom Island. After Captain John attacked, Feng Ye revealed overwhelming power and confronted him.

• Marco spotted the Black Pearl approaching the island and warned the Whitebeard Pirates to prepare for the John Pirates.
• Marco saw the Black Pearl pursuing Feng Ye’s ship and judged that the John Pirates had targeted an unrelated merchant vessel.
• Captain John ordered cannon fire at Feng Ye’s ship, but the ship remained undamaged and the incoming cannonballs froze and exploded.
• Captain John slashed at Feng Ye’s ship with a sword aura, but Feng Ye caught it with his bare hand and crushed it.
• Feng Ye stood atop his ship and asked Captain John if he was determined to get himself killed.

Feng Ye annihilated the John Pirates’ Black Pearl with two waves, while Whitebeard stopped the resulting tsunami from reaching his crew. Whitebeard and the Whitebeard Pirates recognized Feng Ye as the terrifying presence behind the attack.

• The John Pirates recognized Feng Ye, and he raised two enormous waves around the Black Pearl.
• Captain John and his crew attacked the waves, but their blows failed to stop them from crushing the ship and unleashing a tsunami.
• Marco warned the Whitebeard Pirates as the tsunami raced toward shore, and Whitebeard blocked it with a wave of his own.
• Whitebeard sensed a presence more terrifying than Captain John’s and watched the sea settle around the wreckage of the Black Pearl.
• Marco, Jozu, Vista, and the others saw Feng Ye standing on his ship and realized the John Pirates had been nearly wiped out.

Feng Ye fought Captain John after destroying the Black Pearl and most of its crew, then challenged the Great Swordsman to test his own swordsmanship. The chapter ended with Captain John renewing his resolve to cut Feng Ye down.

• Feng Ye destroyed the Black Pearl with a powerful attack after its crew fired on him.
• Captain John survived and split the sea with a sword slash, but Feng Ye stopped it with a descending punch.
• Robin identified Captain John as a former Rocks Pirate with a 2.1379 billion bounty, and Feng Ye recalled that Gecko Moria would later turn him into a zombie.
• Captain John clashed swords with Feng Ye, but Feng Ye's Haki and strength sent him flying backward.
• Feng Ye invited Captain John to fight as a Great Swordsman, and Captain John vowed to defeat him even at the cost of his life.

Feng Ye used his Sharingan to copy Captain John’s sword techniques and surpass them in speed and power. He defeated Captain John with the swordsman’s own ultimate technique, Starfall, leaving a vast abyss in the sea.

• Captain John attacked Feng Ye with Void Rend, but Feng Ye copied the technique and wounded him with a denser web of sword energy.
• Captain John used Ten Star Stab, and Feng Ye copied and overwhelmed it, forcing John to evade the slash that carved a cross-shaped fissure through the sea.
• Feng Ye used Meteor Sword Stab before Captain John could, overpowering his defense and sending him flying while damaging him with penetrating Armament Haki.
• Feng Ye told Captain John he had seen through all his swordsmanship and unleashed John’s strongest technique, Starfall.
• Captain John was swallowed by Starfall and died as the attack carved a massive abyss through the sea and seafloor.

Feng Ye defeated Captain John in four moves, then killed the surviving John Pirates officers while reflecting that his strength still fell short of his ambitions. After rejoining Robin aboard their ship, he spotted the Whitebeard Pirates and decided to visit Whitebeard.

• Marco, Diamond Jozu, and the Whitebeard Pirates recovered from witnessing Feng Ye overwhelm Captain John, while Whitebeard recognized Feng Ye's extraordinary Haki and strength.
• Feng Ye judged that his swordsmanship and power were still insufficient, leaving the wounded John Pirates officers horrified by his dissatisfaction.
• Feng Ye used the Reincarnated Tenseigan to kill the John Pirates officers who had clung to wreckage in the sea.
• Feng Ye and Robin returned to their ship, and Robin identified the Whitebeard Pirates and their captain, Edward Newgate.
• Feng Ye decided to visit Whitebeard.

Feng Ye arrived at the coast where Whitebeard and his crew had gathered, overwhelming most of them with his Conqueror's Haki before meeting Whitebeard face-to-face. He said he had come only to pay Whitebeard a visit, easing the tension as Whitebeard began to tease him.

• Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates grew tense as Feng Ye's ship approached after he had destroyed the John Pirates.
• Feng Ye walked onto the shore with Robin, and his Conqueror's Haki caused many of Whitebeard's crew to collapse.
• Feng Ye formed a staircase of sand up the cliff and climbed it with Robin to meet Whitebeard.
• Feng Ye greeted Whitebeard as the World's Strongest Man and said he had wanted to meet him for a long time.
• Feng Ye said he had come only to pay Whitebeard a visit, and Whitebeard joked about him spreading his Haki around.

Feng Ye challenged Whitebeard to test his Haki and swordsmanship, and the two clashed in a strike that split the storm clouds above the island. Their fight began with Whitebeard using the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, while Robin believed Feng Ye surpassed ordinary human limits.

• Feng Ye explained that he respected Whitebeard for reaching the top through his own strength and for using his wealth to support his hometown.
• Feng Ye drew his sword and challenged Whitebeard, who ordered Marco, Jozu, and the others to retreat.
• Feng Ye and Whitebeard met their blades, unleashing Conqueror's Haki and a shockwave that scattered cherry blossoms and split the clouds.
• Marco, Jozu, and Vista expressed confidence that Whitebeard would not lose, while Robin privately judged Feng Ye to be beyond humanity.
• Feng Ye felt the Tremor-Tremor Fruit shaking his sword and said he could handle Whitebeard's power.

Feng Ye and Whitebeard fought at full strength on Poisonous Cherry Blossom Island, while Blackbeard watched and planned how to surpass them. Their final clash split the island apart, leaving its destruction unresolved.

• Whitebeard unleashed the Tremor-Tremor Fruit’s full power, and Feng Ye blocked his punch with Evening Elephant without retreating.
• Marco and the other Whitebeard Pirates officers watched from their ships as Feng Ye matched Whitebeard’s attacks.
• Blackbeard concluded that reports of Feng Ye’s destruction of Marine Headquarters and Mary Geoise were true and resolved to seek the Dark-Dark Fruit so he could take Whitebeard’s Tremor-Tremor Fruit power.
• Feng Ye and Whitebeard continued their battle for half a day, exchanging increasingly powerful attacks across Poisonous Cherry Blossom Island.
• Feng Ye and Whitebeard launched a final clash that split Poisonous Cherry Blossom Island apart.

Feng Ye and Whitebeard ended their devastating battle in a draw, though Whitebeard realized Feng Ye had held back and used the fight to hone his Haki. After Feng Ye explained that he sailed to lead different people toward different futures, Whitebeard invited him to a party.

• After the island split apart, Marco flew to the center and found Whitebeard and Feng Ye unharmed.
• Feng Ye called the battle a draw and reflected that fighting Whitebeard had brought his Armament Haki close to Garp's level.
• Whitebeard confronted Feng Ye about holding back, sensing that the battle had not awakened Feng Ye's true fighting spirit.
• Whitebeard asked what Feng Ye sailed for, and Feng Ye said he wanted to lead different people toward different futures.
• Feng Ye asked Whitebeard for a drink, and Whitebeard told Marco to prepare a party.